Fastener for meeting-rabis of sashes



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L. A. BROWN.

' PASTBNER' FOR MEETING RAILS OF SASHES.

Patented Oct. 23, 1888..

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LEWIS A. BROWN, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

FASTENER FOR MEETING=RABLS OF SASHES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent 310.391.685, dated October 23, 1888.

Application filed August 29, 1888. Serial No. 284,044.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, LEWIS A. BROWN, of St. Louis, Missouri, have made a new and use fnl Improvement in Sash-Fasteners, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This improvement consists, mainly, of a hook attached to the lower sash, a staple attached to the upper sash, and a slotted link which is permanently attached to or connect ed with the staple and adapted to be connected with and detached from the hook, and the sashes thereby fastened and unfastened, allsubstantially as is herein described and claimed, aided by the annexed drawings, making part of this specification, in Which- Figure 1 is an elevation of the improved fastener in position, the sash being closed and the link being in engagement with the hook and turned laterally around to bring the slot in the link out of coincidence with the hook; Fig. 2, a vertical section on the line 2 2 of Fig. 1; Fig. 3, a plan of the fastener, the link be ing turned down upon the hook. The broken lines indicate the position into which the link is turned to fasten the sash. Fig. 4 is a view analogous to that of Fig. 3, but showing the link detached from the hook and turned backward and sidewise upon the lower rail of the upper sash, as when the lower sash is being raised; Fig. 5, a side view showing the hook and the staple upon their respective rails, thelink beingshownin brokenlines and partly raised but not yet detached from thehook; Fig. 6, aview in perspective of the hook; Fig. 7, a view in perspective of the staple; and Fig. 8, a view in perspective of the link.

The same letters of reference denote the same parts.

The present staple, link, and hook are in a measure analogous to an improvement in boX- fasteners patented to V. S. Ketchum, August 30, 1887, and numbered 369,185.

The hook A in the present instance is a fixture upon the sash B. It consists of a base, a,

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which, by means of the screws a a, is secured to the sash, and the point a, which rises from the base a and curves outward and downward, substantially as shown. That part a of the hook which passes through the slot 0 of the link is narrower than is'the neck a of the hook, and at a the hook is raised to narrow the opening a so that the slotted portion 0 of the link has to be turned flat to pass it in fastening and unfastening the sash. The link 0 is substantially like that used in the fastener referred to.

D represents the staple. It is secured to the sash E by means of the screw d. The staple consists of a base, d, which may be a ring, as shown, and a bar, (1, which extends across and sufficiently above the base to admit the ringshaped part 0" of the link. A gap, d, is left in the bar d to enable the link to be passed into engagement with the staple, after which the gap isclosed by means of the screw d, whose head fits into the gap and bears upon the two parts of the bar. The screw thus serves a doublepurpose. The link has a handie, 0

f In the present application I lay no claim to the special construction described in my pending application for a patent for an improvement in blind-fasteners filed August 30, 1888, Serial No. 284,114.

I claim- The combination of the hook, the link, the staple, and the sashes, said hook consisting of the base and the narrowed point and being secured to the sash, as described, said link having an extension slotted and provided with a handle, as described, and said staple consisting of a base and a raised cut bar and being secured to the sash by means of the screw, substantially as described.

. Witness my hand.

LEWIS A. BROWN.

Witnesses:

O. D. MooDY, J AS. W. ALLEN. 

